Upkeep: 19.5 Veteran, 7 Green, 1 Associate
- 2.5 vet + 0.5 green demon finding training (+20% grief cubes)
- 2.5 vet + 0.5 green on pack tactics (-4% pack hunting, -2% pair hunting)
- 1 Vet, 2 Green working jobs
- 1 veteran (Hainako) Translation service
- 5 veteran + 3 green working courier business (Minimum 3 vets)
- 2 vets on dispatch service (+30% grief cubes additive with demon finding, -1% casualties)
- 1.5 vet on telepathic communication (-2% pair hunting, -1% pack hunting)
- 1 Veteran, Paperpushing
- 3 Vets (Akane, Kit), 2 Green, 1 Associate
Note: the upkeep listed amounts to 8 greens, not 7, and yes that means that all our greens are being used for upkeep duties, either working mundane jobs or on upkeep for training.
Also, we should prioritize moral improvements and retraining over research this turn.
Agreed; we lost 5 cubes to spirals this turn; I'd rather not keep losing that much. I'm thinking two morale days this month:
- A "Welcome to the Serene" party for Seto's group. Let them get to know the extended organization, etc.
- A memorial party to coincide with the 49th day after the super-demon event. The majority of Japan is Buddhist, or at least follow Buddhist funerary rites, so the shijūkunichi is already going to be important to many girls; this will let it be a day of remembrance for Seto's group, and let everyone else be there for them.
Might be okay. Worm makes me worry an awful lot about that type of power. Though if it's clear that talk to doesn't mean they have to listen, I suppose it would be difficult to munchkin that too badly.
The reason that the Worm power is so awesome really has very little to do with insect control, and everything to do with one-woman army multitasking, combined with more than a bit of plot armor and idiot boxing of opponents.
I'm not really sure how you intend to go about implementing this one either. I mean Kyouko has the most experience fighting out of any of your current crop (especially if you count the amount of time she spent hunting with her clone twice). But I'm not sure that experience fighting really translates into ability to teach that.
I agree; I think we're going to need to research advanced combat techniques first, which should involve, IMO:
- Observing (maybe even recording? Can we enchant cameras, wrapped in plastic, into the miasma and have them continue to work?) meguca tactics already used in the field, especially by the elites, and work backwards to determine what tactics are used and why they are effective.
- Enrolling meguca in combat courses of varying types: martial arts, weapons, firearms training, etc.
- Researching how to apply that knowledge to demon (or other meguca) fighting.
- Finally, spreading conclusions and new knowledge with the rest of the group.
All said and done, I assume that basic combat tactics are mostly known to all meguca via instinctual knowledge, and just need a bit of a "reminder" to be regularly used--after all, we're only giving them the equivalent of a day's training--but going beyond that instinct requires study and practice.
Hmm. Yeah. However a house of the same size won't be sufficient. That'll give us 25 capacity, but between the two houses we'll only have 50, when we need a minimum of 56. Right at that annoying spot where a third house would be way too much, but even keeping a handful of apartments would still leave the houses at close to capacity.
Well we need at least one apartment set in Iwata, since it's still relatively far from everything, but I don't know if it rates a full-on house.
Actually I think we should stick with the two house+apartments deal for now, and save up money for a down payment on buying a house/houses, rather than just renting, as that will save money in the long run (mostly due to tax savings) and let the Serene build up equity for future loans as needed.
@inverted_helix given the $4000/month rent, I'd estimate that the property owner is actually paying $3000 a month for their loan payment. This implies the total loan amount was for ~$558,000, which at 20% down gives us a home value of ~$700,000. Property taxes in Japan amount to around 1.7%, in this case ~$12,000, or $1000 a month, which accounts for the other $1000 we're being charged (renters make their money on property depreciation and tax writeoffs mostly; if you charge much more than that in rent then you generally get undercut by the market). So, that gives us $700,000 for a property that gives us 25 meguca capacity; does that sound fair?
Now, on to expenses for buying a similar property! Say we look for, and obtain, a $700,000 property. Acquisition costs will run to around 13.5% of the home's value in Japan (realator fees, acquisition taxes, etc); we'll just round that up to 15% and 2 cubes to account for kyuubey's extra fees and services. Combine this with 20% down and we have an initial startup cost of $245,000, with monthly upkeep costs of, again, $4000, just like before (see above math). We will own the property outright in 30*12=360 turns if we don't pay off the loan early, at which point the monthly upkeep cost goes down to $1000.
But wait! Now that we own the property, we can use it for write offs! All that income we're making for the restaurant is being taxed, probably at around 30% or so. With our new writeoff, which will probably be owned by the same corporate persona that owns the restaurant, we can save a lot of money on tax writeoffs, even without drawing any notice from auditors (in fact it would draw attention if we wrote off too little, really). So, if it were me running the quest, I'd just treat this as an income bonus of $1500 a month, for every $4000/month homeowners upkeep and $6000+/month we make in legitimate income.
In other words, I propose:
[] Improve Housing: Purchase House: You could always use another house for your girls. Will still be quite a few people per bedroom, but gives more of a feeling of home. Purchasing a house lets you write off a lot of income taxes, and builds up equity for future loans.
Cost: $245,000, 2 cubes to smooth over documentation issues, and 3 Veteran Meguca; Reward House (for up to 25 Meguca extra capacity), ongoing cost 4000$ per month or you start having legal issues. Payable at the beginning of the month, reduces to $1000 per month after 360 turns.
Synergy Bonus: Owning a home and running a business let you write off income. For every house owned, you get effectively $1500 a month back from the government, assuming you make more than $6000 per house.
Synergy Bonus: Owning a house lets you build up equity for future loans/lines of credit, which can be made at a lower interest rate. This means no more 20% credit card loans; home equity lines of credit top out at around 5% instead. For simplicity, total home equity is $140,000 plus $1600 per successful loan payment.
Sound fair?
Bodycams for meguca!
